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DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.
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Magnetalint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Mag - NET - uh - lint
Sentence: Having made repeated passes with the vacuum over the ball of lint only to have it remain attached to the carpet as if by some unseen force, Genevieve gave it the title of magnetalint.
Etymology: Blend of magnetic and lint
Crumbudgeon
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: cruhm-uh-jihn
Sentence: She didn't spend $400.00 on a vacum cleaner and expect to have to bend over and feed it every crumbudgeon.
Etymology: crumb (a small fragment [esp. of bread]) + curmudgeon (a crusty, ill-tempered and usu. old man)
Relintroduce
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /ree-LIN-truh-doos/
Sentence: Wanda had run the vacuum cleaner back and forth over the same bit of blue fluff five times now, and she was beginning to get annoyed — both at the lint, for clinging so stubbornly, and at the vacuum, which kept failing to pick it up. For the third time, she bent down and plucked the lint from the carpet. Feeling a little sarcastic this time though, she showed the lint to the vacuum and relintroduced them, saying "Vacuum, meet lint; lint, meet vacuum." As she placed the lint in front of the vacuum, Wanda told it, "Mr. Vaccum's going to take you someplace where lots of other bits of fluff and lint hang out. You go with him, okay?" and tried it once more.
Etymology: Blend of: Reintroduce - to acquaint with, or bring into notice again (from Latin, re- "again" & intrōdūcere "to lead inside") + Lint - clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz (from Middle French, linette "grain of flax")
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COMMENTS:
didn't see this yesterday - great word - bookowl, 2008-04-05: 12:16:00
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Vacuumulate
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (tr.v.)vāk'yōōm-yə-lāt'; (n.) vāk'yōōm-yə-lā'shən
Sentence: Due to the poor quality of her ancient Eureka, it has become necessary for mom to repeatedly vacuumulate extraneous bits of fluff left behind by her cats.
Etymology: vacuum + [accum]ulation
Sonnovalint
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: son-of-a-lint
Sentence: No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get that sonnovalint off the carpet.
Etymology: son-of-a: a pest or annoying; lint - randoms found on the floor.
Magnetalint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mag-NET-eh-lint
Sentence: Valerie loved her new carpeting but hated the way lint would often cling to the shag and defy even her most diligent efforts to vacuum it up and in a moment of angry frustration she labeld the offending fuzz balls as magnetalint for the way they seemed magnetically stuck to the carpet.
Etymology: Blend of magnet and lint
Resucirt
Created by: Softbagel14
Pronunciation: Re-suh-sert is the proper way, however Re-suh-kert is also acceptable
Sentence: Behind her old vaccum was a stubborn 'resucirt', sitting in the exact spot she had just cleaned. -ed can be added to the end of the word to form 'Resucirted'. Mary 'resucirted' the lint that would not pick up the first time.
Etymology: Re- meaning 'again' -suc- from the word 'suck' -irt from the word 'dirt'
Unrelinting
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: un - ree - lint - ing
Sentence: Despite numerous attempts to suck up the bright purple piece of lint, the fiber was unrelinting. Todd could just not explain it and became more determined than ever that it would be Hoover and not himself that would do the final pick up....
Etymology: unrelenting (persistent: never-ceasing), lint
Fluffshuffle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fluff-shuff-l
Sentence: Colette was a former dancer. She loved to put on 'The Hustle' while she vacuumed the floor, and jiggle around the lounge and breaking into a fluffshuffle when she found bits of obstilint.
Etymology: fluff (stuff to be vacuumed) + shuffle (moving backwards and forwards over a small distance)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-04: 06:52:00
recapitulint
stache - 2008-04-04: 07:08:00
(oops. it's early here.)
Jamagra - 2008-04-04: 08:22:00
I think this one was an actual Sniglet back in the day... can't remember the word, though. :)
Hey Jamagra, I think that sniglet was "carpetuation", which very good because it does seem to take long time to vacuum up a cat. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James